Christian Carnival CCXXXII
. . . has been posted. This time my contribution was from my wife’s devotional list, but I’m still linking the carnival from here.
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Perhaps it’s Time to Give Up
. . . when you have to cite the Flintstones.
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No Meaning without Interpretation
You know, that title is so much worse than the one I’m going to link to — The Bible doesn’t say. That makes the point. I frequently say that one can only call something “Biblical” when speaking from within a particular interpretive framework, which completely ruins the whole “Biblical” thing. In my experience the use…
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Chuck Colson says Scripture Commands Limited Government
Chuck Colson writes a guest column at the Christian Post, in which he argues in favor of limited government from the Bible. In it, he tells the story of a friend of his who bought some property to create a children’s camp for inner city children, surely a most desirable goal. Over the next two…
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Getting to the Biblical Side of Evolutionary Creationism?
Steve Martin lists ten books that have been written since 2003 (and pretty much none before that) on evolutionary creationism, starting with my favorite, Richard Colling’s Random Designer. The good news is that there are so many new books looking at evangelical Christianity and evolutionary theory from a positive perspective. The bad news is that…
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Author Related | Creation and Evolution | Education | Education Policy | Energion.com | Intelligent Design | Science Education
When Neutrality isn’t Neutral
The news of Chris Comer’s suit against the Texas Education Administration claiming she was forced out illegally should come as no surprise to anyone. The reasoning behind the dismissal clearly silly, and the explanations did not ring true as the real reasons she was asked to resign. But as a moderate who likes to see…
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NLT has a Blog
Wayne Leman at Better Bibles Blog notes that there is now a blog for the NLT. I note with pleasure that the first post deals in a very balanced way with the widespread belief that dynamic equivalence translation is the same thing as paraphrasing. (One should note that in this case “paraphrasing” is not used…
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Author Related | Creation and Evolution | Education | Education Policy | Energion.com | Science Education
Creationism and the Science Curriculum
With a number of misnamed “academic freedom” bills proposed in various places, and passed recently in Louisiana, it might be a good time to consider some issues other than religion that are related to the science curriculum. I have argued repeatedly that these bills are religiously motivated, and that the idea is to create as…
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Perhaps Jerry Pournelle Should Stick to Fiction
I like Jerry Pournelle, though he’s not on my top 5 or top 10 list of authors, but it looks like he should stick to the “fiction” part of “science fiction.”.
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Religious Attitudes and Worship Styles
One thing I have observed over the years is that relatively few debates in church congregations center around serious theological issues. A few are about administrative and financial issues, but there is nothing like the order of worship to produce an angry debate. Some congregations spend years fighting over things like whether one should raise…